Marcus Tullius Cicero

106-43 BCE, Roman Orator, Statesman, Essayist

Ability
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Accomplishment / Achievement / Excellence
For it is commonly said: 'hard tasks are pleasant when they are finished.'
De Finibus
Age / Ageing
Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man in whom there is something of the young. Guided so, a man may grow old in body but never in mind.